TALLADEGA, Alabama - It wasn't the BIG one when it comes to
the number of affected cars.

But the crash that came in Lap 43 was big because
of the contenders whose chances were at least hurt.

Sixteen cars were swept into the wreck that came when Kyle
Busch nudged Kasey Kahne, who swerved into the wall between Turns 1 and 2. Contenders Tony Stewart,
Greg Biffle, Jeff Gordon and Ken Harvick were tagged in the crash.

"I just hate it because I caused a heck of a melee for
everybody," Busch said in the garage area. "A lot of good cars got torn up and
it's way too early in the race to be doing any of those sorts of moves whether
he made it or I made it. It was a little miscalculation, I guess."

Busch said he really didn't know what happened between Turns 1 and 2.

"I know I got in the back of the 5 (Kahne) and I guess I was
trying to go to the outside of him, but he just moved up in front of me and I wasn't
expecting it," he said. "I tried to go to the outside of him and before I could
get to the outside of him I got in the back of him."

Biffle said he just saw cars wrecking above him and
considered going left.

"I had plenty of room and probably should have, but I didn't,"
he said. "I just stayed straight and moved down all I could and it wasn't
enough. They got me in the right-rear and turned me the wrong way up into
the wall, a pretty hard hit, but that's all you can do is hang on when stuff
like that happens."

Biffle said the big one can come
early.

"It can happen at any time," he said. "You
just never know. We were trying to be cautious, but that didn't work."

Kahne said he had a really fast Time Warner
Cable Chevrolet, then he "kind of got shot through the center there, just a lot
of momentum coming from behind."

Kahne
said he felt the No. 18 pushing him.

"Next
thing I know I was spinning," he said. "You just can't push with these
cars. We learned that at Daytona. He was pushing me and spun me in the
wall and then happened again, so that is what it is."